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Leg warmer

Postby mrP(Boonen)VT » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:36 pm

Riding in to work yesterday, I got changed and was definitely wearing 2 legwarmers. :D

getting changed back in the evening and only 1 could be found :cry: . Searched high and low, checked lost property - nothing. :cry:

The dilemma was - to keep one leg warm??? If so which one?? or neither??
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Re: Leg warmer

Postby Richard (Apples) » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:42 pm

You sure its not run off with your trainer.... :lol:
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Re: Leg warmer

Postby mrP(Boonen)VT » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:44 pm

No the missing trainer belongs to my right foot :lol:
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Re: Leg warmer

Postby Robert » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:52 pm

I didn`t realise that leg warmers were right or left leg specific! You ride with one and change halfway :twisted:
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Re: Leg warmer

Postby Ivor » Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:55 pm

[quote="mrP(Boonen)VT"]The dilemma was - to keep one leg warm??? If so which one?? or neither??

cut it in half and use it as two knee warmers?
pull it over both legs and ride like a fish?
keep your "third leg" extra cosy?

go on tell me you picked a favourite leg and rode home with it on one leg....
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Re: Leg warmer

Postby Andrew G » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:04 pm

I'm getting worried what you're going to turn up at CSS wearing on Saturday now as you appear to be shedding clothes. :shock:
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Re: Leg warmer

Postby mrP(Boonen)VT » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:12 pm

Still got me budgie smugglers :wink:
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Re: Leg warmer

Postby Sylv » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:19 pm

Easy one - your commuting route surely includes roundabouts on which your left leg is travelling faster thus more exposed to airflow than the right one, yet it is turning at the same speed so not working harder and getting more warmth from the effort. So left should be the one you pick to cover.

Plus this way you don't risk staining the right legwarmer with chain oil.
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Re: Leg warmer

Postby mrP(Boonen)VT » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:21 pm

LOL - silly me :lol:
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Re: Leg warmer

Postby Sylv » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:23 pm

(Ps: remember to swap legs when you travel to France)
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Re: Leg warmer

Postby Sylv » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:28 pm

I think it's on the DParagon website that I read, of a myth about a hard as nails uk rider who had had to ride a time trial with two same-foot shoes. They thought it was only a myth though
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Re: Leg warmer

Postby mrP(Boonen)VT » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:29 pm

Mais oui Monsieur, bien sur. 8)
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Re: Leg warmer

Postby mrP(Boonen)VT » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:30 pm

[quote]hard as nails uk rider who had had to ride a time trial with two same-foot shoes.


I tried that theory - it's so that you get back as quick as possible to stop the pain - but it didn't work :cry:
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